Post Slider by WD – Responsive Post Slider

Description

Post Slider helps to display posts of your website as a slider. The plugin allows to create sliders from native WordPress posts and custom posts created by third-party plugins.
The plugin has two types of posts sliders: dynamic and static post sliders.

Using dynamic post slider you can display dynamically changing list of posts, e.g. featured posts, news posts, product post from ecommerce plugins and etc. As initial step you should provide filters which will allow Post Slider plugin to display posts relevant to filtered settings.

Choose specific posts and display them using static slider. In this case slides will remain unchanged unless you add/edit existing slide list. This is also relevant to custom posts like ecommerce products or events.
Post Slider is fully responsive and looks wonderful with devices of any resolution.

Using Text layer you can display any text over the slides. In addition you can choose placeholders containing information specific for that post only, e.g. Title, post content, author and etc. Placeholder content will be modified when changes are made to posts. This applies both to static post sliders and dynamic posts sliders.

Image layers (Paid) will help to add brand logo over post slides.
If you want to add text over the slide but also want to save space you should use hotspot layer (Paid). It will display hotspot icon over the slide and display text when hovered over this icon.

IMPORTANT:

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Screenshots

Post Slider WD - Add Slides

Post Slider WD - Slider Settings

Post Slider WD - Slider 1

Post Slider WD - Slider 2

Post Slider WD - Slider 3

Installation

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Minimum requirements.

WordPress 3.9+

PHP 5.x

MySQL 5.x

Perform a new installation

After downloading the ZIP file of the Post Slider WD plugin,

Log in to the administrator panel.

Go to Plugins Add > New > Upload.

Click “Choose file” (“Browse”) and select the downloaded zip file of the Post Slider plugin.For Mac UsersGo to your Downloads folder and locate the folder with the Post Slider WD. Right-click on the folder and select Compress. Now you have a newly created .zip file which can be installed as described here.

FAQ

On the right upper corner you will see the following buttons:
* Save. This will save the changes applied to the slider and redirect you to the list of all created slides.
* Apply. This will save the changes applied to the slider and keep you on the same page in admin panel.
* Save as Copy. Using this option you can edit post slider and save it as a copy instead of replacing the original post slider.
* Cancel. You can cancel any changes made to slider hitting the button.

Search. Here you can input a title (full or partial) to search for relevant posts. Using follow-up select field you can narrow your search to specific post type.
Post Type. Here you will see the list of WordPress native posts and custom posts created by other plugins,e.g. Calendar plugins, Ecommerce plugins and etc. After selecting a type the list of relevant taxonomies will appear, which can be used for browsing posts, e.g. for WordPress native type posts you will see Category as taxonomy.

Full list of the posts corresponding to filters will be visible below. You can select the posts you prefer to add to slider using the checkbox next to their title.

As a final step press Add to Slider button.

Posts will be added and displayed with their custom images below Slides section. You can change the sequence of the posts using drag and drop (4-pointed arrow). Additionally you can provide titles to slides by clicking on Slide N, which is slide sequential number and providing a title.

Hovering over the images you will see a set of three buttons: Edit Post, Duplicate Slide, Delete.

Edit Slide. Pressing the button you can replace the original post with another one.

Duplicate Slide. Pressing the button you will not only duplicate the slider but its layers. You can further edit and replace the slide keeping all of its layers.

Delete. Using the button you can remove the slide

How is the dynamic posts slider created?

Dynamic Post slider is designed to display posts which fulfill requirements set by filters. The slider posts will be updated when new posts corresponding to filters are added to your site, e.g. if you choose to display posts corresponding to Latest Posts category, newly added posts will be displayed within the slider.

The list of filters is the following:

Period of posts to display. Set the time for the posts, e.g. if set it to 24 hours it will display the posts added within the last 24 hours.

Number of posts. Set the number of posts which will be displayed as slides. If set to 0 or left empty it will display all posts.

Author. Select the author whose posts will be displayed within the slider.

Sort posts by. Select the option which will be used as a sorting basis while displaying posts.

Order posts by. Set the ordering sequence for the posts- ascending or descending.

Post taxonomies. Here all available taxonomies will be displayed relevant for that specific type of posts. You can use drop-downs to narrow the selection.

What kinds of layers can be added to the slider?

In Pro version of Post Slider, there are 4 types of layers that can be added slides: Text, Image, Social Button and Hotspot. You can add multiple layers to each slide: layers can be of same type or different.The layers can be duplicated by pressing “Duplicate button” next to the “Close” button. In this case the duplicated layer will appear as the last positioned layer and can be further customized.

Position. Either drag and drop the layer over the slide or use x and y axis values for positioning it.

Size. Set font size for text layer.

Color. Set font color for text layer.

Font family. Set font family for text layer. This option can be enhanced if you add font family in Settings>General Options.

Font weight. If you want to add additional styling to your text, e.g. make it bold, use this option.

Published. Choose whether to publish the layer or not.

Effect in. Select the effect which will be used when layer appears over the slide.

Effect out. Select the effect which will be used when layer disappears from the slide.

Padding. Using CSS values set padding for text within the layer.

Background Color. Set a color which will used as a background color for the text layer.

Transparency. Set transparency level for the image between 0 and 100, where 100 corresponds to full transparency.

Border. Using CSS values set a border for text layer.

Radius. Using CSS values set radius for text layer.

Shadow. Using CSS values set shadow for image layer.

Image Layer will allow adding an image over the slider post. Please note that in case of dynamic posts you can only choose one image that will be displayed with all post slides, whereas with static post slider you can set different images.

Dimensions. Provide image layer height and width. To avoid distortion make sure those correspond to initial dimension of the image.

Alt. Fill in HTML attribute specified in the IMG tag.

Link. Fill in link to which user will be redirected upon hitting the layer, e.g. http://www.example.com.

Position. Either drag and drop the layer over the slide or use x and y axis values for positioning it.

Transparency. Set transparency level for the image between 0 and 100, where 100 corresponds to full transparency.

Published. Choose whether to publish the layer or not.

Effect in. Select the effect which will be used when layer appears over the slide.

Effect out. Select the effect which will be used when layer disappears from the slide.

Border. Using CSS values set a border for image layer.

Radius. Using CSS values set radius for image layer.

Shadow. Using CSS values set shadow for image layer.

Can I add social buttons to the slider?

This feature is available in Post Slider Pro. You can select social sharing buttons which will allow sharing the slide. The list includes Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+.

Position. Either drag and drop the layer over the slide or use x and y axis values for positioning it.

Social button. Using drop-down choose social sharing button to use as a layer.

Size. Define the size of social sharing button.

Transparency. Set transparency level for the image between 0 and 100, where 100 corresponds to full transparency.

Published. Choose whether to publish the layer or not.

Effect in. Select the effect which will be used when layer appears over the slide.

Effect out. Select the effect which will be used when layer disappears from the slide.

Color. Choose button color for the social sharing button.

Hover color. Choose button color for the social sharing button when hovered.

Is it possiblt to place a HotSpot on the slideshow?

Hotspot layer is available in Post Slider Pro version. It will allow displaying a hotspot icon over the slide and displaying content when hovered over this icon.

Text. Provide a text which will be displayed as hotspot pop-up.

Dimensions. Provide dimensions for hotspot pop-up window.

Position. Either drag and drop the layer over the slide or use x and y axis values for positioning it.

Link. Fill in link to which user will be redirected upon hitting the layer, e.g. http://www.example.com.

Hotspot text position. Select a positioning for hotspot pop-up text.

Hotspot Width. Define the width for the hotspot icon.

Hotspot Background Color. Set a background color for hotspot icon.

Hotspot Border. Using CSS values set a border for hotspot.

Hotspot Radius. Using CSS values set radius for hotspot.

Published. Choose whether to publish the layer or not.

Effect in. Select the effect which will be used when layer appears over the slide.

Effect out. Select the effect which will be used when layer disappears from the slide.

Padding. Using CSS values set padding for text within the layer.

Size. Define font size for hotspot pop-up text.

Color. Select font color for hotspot pop-up text.

Font family. Set font family for text layer. This option can be enhanced if you add font family in Settings>General Options.

Font weight. If you want to add additional styling to your text, e.g. make it bold, use this option.

Background Color.

Transparent. Set transparency level for the image between 0 and 100, where 100 corresponds to full transparency.

Border. Using CSS values set a border for overall hotspot layer.

Radius. Using CSS values set radius for overall hotspot layer.

Shadow. Using CSS values set shadow for overall hotspot layer.

Where can I edit the plugin settings?

If you want to make major changes applicable to entire slider go to Post Slider WD > Sliders > Settings tab.

Global Settings. You can change the main settings here. The changes will affect only the current slider.